Episode 453 – USA Today List, The 2022 Author Survey, and Multiple Paths to Success (with Jen Lassalle)

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How much emphasis do you put on your book launch? How would it feel if you didn’t focus as much on sales in the first 30 days of a book’s release?

This week we have a great show in store for you. Leave us a review on Apple Podcast and answer the Question of the Week in the comment section. Top Tips of the week include how to have the perfect writing space, wherever you are, whether or not you should juggle multiple projects at once, and which BookBub ads are working and how to test your own. The 5 News stories that matter most to indies this week is what happened when only two readers showed up at one author’s signing, how D2D can get you selling in the Smashwords Store, why you should find a genre that you love to write that readers love to buy, the scoop on author earnings from Written Word Media, and what we think will happen with the USA Today bestseller list. Question of the week: How much emphasis do you put on your book launch? How would it feel if you didn’t focus as much on sales in the first 30 days of a book’s release?

What You’ll Learn:
  • How to have the perfect writing space, wherever you are
  • Whether or not you should juggle multiple projects at once
  • Which BookBub ads are working and how to test your own
  • What happened when only two readers showed up at one author’s signing
  • How D2D can get you selling in the Smashwords Store
  • Why you should find a genre that you love to write that readers love to buy
  • The scoop on author earnings from Written Word Media
  • What we think will happen with the USA Today bestseller list
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How much emphasis do you put on your book launch? How would it feel if you didn’t focus as much on sales in the first 30 days of a book’s release?

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